The person responsible for the shooting in Munich is said to have been an Austrian teenager.

Authorities suspect that the teenager may have planned an attack on the Israeli consulate in the German city.

The suspect was fatally wounded near the consulate and a museum dedicated to the city’s Nazi history after officers noticed a man carrying a weapon in the Karolinenplatz area around 9 a.m. on Thursday.

The suspect, who was carrying an old long gun with a fixed bayonet, died at the scene.

There is no indication that anyone else was injured, spokesman Andreas Franken told reporters.

When the shots were fired, five officers were on the scene. The police immediately dispatched around 500 officers to the area.

According to police, the shooter was an 18-year-old from Austria, but his motive is still being investigated.

They did not provide any further information about the suspect, who had parked a car near the crime scene.

“We have to assume that an attack on the Israeli consulate may have been planned this morning,” Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told journalists on site.

“It is obvious that it is most likely not a coincidence that someone parks here within sight of the Israeli consulate … and then starts shooting.”

Thursday marked the 52nd anniversary of the attack by Palestinian militants on the Israeli delegation at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The attack killed 11 members of the Israeli team, a West German police officer and five of the attackers.

“There may be a connection – this needs to be clarified,” said Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder.

Police said they had no information about incidents elsewhere or other suspects.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the consulate in Munich was closed at the time of the shooting and none of its employees were injured.

The nearby Munich Documentation Center on the History of National Socialism, which opened in 2015 and researches the city’s past as the birthplace of the Nazi movement, also said all its staff were unharmed.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he had spoken with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

On the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), he wrote that we had “jointly expressed our shared condemnation and horror” at the shooting.

At an independent press conference in Berlin, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser described Thursday’s shooting as “a serious incident” but said she did not want to speculate about what happened.

She reiterated that “protecting Jewish and Israeli institutions is a top priority.”